I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I’m ugly.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Never mistake motion for action.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.